James Pov
After repairs to the Crystal Empire were made, me, Pyro and Ed decided to talk, “So how are you enjoying your stay here in my Equestria?” I asked, trying to start the conversation, although Pyro was asleep,
“Other than getting dropped in the middle of a battle and having my arm ripped off when I wasn’t paying attention great. Luckily I can regenerate. Perks of being a living Philosopher Stone,” Ed says with a smile.
“The Philosopher's stone, heard about that, but don’t know much about it, but sorry, just needed help, my Autobots have been spread out making allies, bases, all of that, heck the only things I had active in my Basement were Iron Golems from Minecraft, and a single Spiderbot,”
“Trust me you don’t want a Philosopher Stone Prime. I only use mine when I have to or when my body reacts to a serious injury. Other than that, I rely on my magic that I got from my niece. A stone it literally a mass of disembodied living souls. But enough of that got any kind of family since coming here?” Ed asks while tinkering on his arm.
“Yes, he does,” Sari said walking towards us, Nyx on her shoulders,
“Ah Sari, I see you’re alright, Ed, this is my girlfriend Sari Sumdac, and my daughter Nyx,”
“Nice to meet you both. Name’s Edward Elric the Fullmetal Alchemist or that’s who I am now. Formerly Allen Ferris a small-time prop maker. Nyx showed up here. I’ll be dealing with this back home pretty soon myself,” Ed said noticing something about his arm. “Sorry, but you guys might be freaked out by this next part.”
Ed then reaches under his shirt and flipped what sounded like a series of switches. In the next second, Ed pulled off his own arm. And placed it on the table in front of him. He then took a small bag from his belt and placed it next to the arm.
“Ed, that freaky as all heck,” commented Sari as Nyx rushed over and hid behind me.
“Sorry about that, but I need to change to a calibrated arm. This fresh one was a spur of the moment regeneration and they are extremely uncomfortable when I use them,” Ed says as he reaches into his bag and I’m completely shocked when his whole left arm sinks into the tiny pack. “Endless carry bag Prime. Let’s me carry a number of items without any consequence of space or weight to the pouch. Here it is.”
Ed pulls out a green crystalline arm and attaches it in place of his steel one.
“What the heck kind of an arm is that?” I asked getting a closer look.
“I call them crystalmail series. This one is my emerald arm and lets me have better control over wind magic. I can’t use normal Equestrian spells and the fact that I’m immuned to all forms of Equestrian magic doesn’t help either. I can use magic but if I want to use spells I have to write my own,” Ed explained going through a few stretches with his new arm. “Now, what can I do to help you out with this war of yours Prime?”
“Well, I could use some reinforcements, and help to track down the Allspark, yes you heard me the Allspark, and help building up an army,”
“Simple enough. I can use my Arc of Embodiment to create pretty much all of that but the army well just be mindless drones that are capable of mid-level understanding. I can create computer components reinforced with magic to allow alternate energy signature tracking too. Two questions though. How many Allsparks are we trying to find and which ones?” Ed said in a serious tone.
“According to Primus, one, but it’s the ones following it that worries me, for Quintessa, from The Last Knight is following it, I don’t know why she needs it, but she’s dangerous, she managed to get Optimus under her control,” I snap my fingers, “Just like that, instant mind control,”
“She was based off the Quintessons that were the original builders of the transformers race so that makes sense to me that she’d have a mind control ability. There is another problem you face in here too. Your almost identical in the other Optimus’s build and design so she might be able to brainwash you to and with that chaos magic you’d be the perfect weapon if that happens,” Ed explained holding his chin while pacing back and forth. “The Allspark in the Age of Extinction, in order to find it we’ll need a scan of its energy or something similar to it at least.”
“Along with my Shadow magic,”
A snort from across the table signaled Pyro waking up, followed by a thud as he feels out of his chair.
“Sorry, what did I miss?” He said holding his head, looking from ed to prime then the kids nearby, rubbing his head, a smile on his face. “Hello you two, Sari right? And this cute little one would be?” he said bending down to look at Nyx.
“That would be Nyx. She’s technically most of a reborn Nightmare Moon without all of the spite and jealousy for Celestia,” commented Ed.
“Oh, then maybe I should call the other nightmares I have with me,” Pyro said holding his right hand to his chin, lost in thought. “Naw, it would be hard to tell who is who if I did that.” he seemed like he was in deep thought over what he just said.
“We were just discussing how to bolster Prime extremely spread forces and how to find the Allspark. And I seem to remember you saying you’d take a look at my arm and I’m not going to pass up the chance for a Displaced such as yourself to do so,” Ed says crossing his arms.
“Well, I can make doorways to help connect the bases that don’t need power to work, just going to have to tweak it to shrink them down. I do have some deep space ships and warp jump ready ones. And the arm, sure let me grab my tools and get some supplies and I will see what I could do, just if you can, get some of your materials because I know I might not have any that would work.” he said, tapping his left arm in thought.
“Power is some that I can provide in bulk. Sage Stones are an artifact I can make with an infinite supply of magic and that can create in based on what type of magic you need them to be. Think of them as the Equestrian equivalent of the Philosopher's stone. Without the loss of life,” Ed says with a lightbulb over his head.
“These doorways are wormholes, they're from Minecraft, I think they're called dimensional doors. I just need to work in a shrinking spell in beforehand,” he said, while the whole time twilight is looking on writing in a scroll and is locked in nerd mode. “And is that lightbulb thing something you got from Pinkie Pie?”
“It happens from time to time. Side effects of loss of concentration coupled with Arc of Embodiment, but it was Pinkie that first triggered it,” Ed said as the lightbulb fades into nothing.
“Same thing happens to me, except from Chaos magic,”
“Well, I could base your new arm around my own since I lost my left arm some time ago. I mean heck, I had to rebuild this thing 50 times over to get it to what it is today.” He said looking down at it.
“As long as it works, is comfortable, functional, and I can enter change it with the others in my collection I won’t complain,” Ed said with a smile.
“Why not fuse all of them into one, using each one of the others like cores, or like the infinity gauntlet?” he said the turning gears showing through his position.
“Let’s do it but instead if regular gemstone we can use a series of Sage stones,” commented the alchemist. “Infinity Arm nice.”
“Mind if I help, I would like to get my mind off the whole me being Quintessa's servant,” I asked, not wanting to think about what I would do if Quintessa controls me,
“Here, this might do the trick,” Ed says pulling a glowing white stone from the pouch on the table. “It’s a Sage’s Mind Stone. Just use your chaos magic to convert it into a processor or motherboard and insert it into your head.”
“Thanks, Ed, is it a one time use?”
“What part of Infinite magic did you not get. As long as you don’t burn up the magic before it can be restored the stone will endure forever and it won’t degrade either. This sucker will even boost your IQ,” Ed says tossing me the stone.
“Sorry, just nervous, it happens, it makes me not think straight,”
“Nervous habits. Never leave us kid, even as Displaced,” Ed says pointing to me.
“Well the name sounds perfect, but I will have to grab a few things, be right back.” Pyro said lifting up the door from his pocket placing it down, the door expanding out.
“But now that I think about it, why don’t you lot come with me, we can talk in my war room, get something to eat and you guys can see my lab,” he said look at me and Ed, looking at my daughter and girlfriend.
“Coming, I could use some lunch. Don’t really need to eat just like to,” Ed said following along. “So Pyro, how’d you end up Displaced, merchant, random encounter, or accident?”
“I was at Comic-Con, take for the fact I was 85 I think. It’s been over 70,000 years since then so my memories might be off a little. I met the merchant, nice guy by the way, and we started chatting, one thing led to another, and I have a new friend. He let me set everything the way I wanted it, I just told him I want to retire fully, I’ve been through enough pain and war to want to go through anymore fighting, so dealing with a villain from my choices I did not need. I mean I was in a war that was about 60 years long so when it comes to fighting, I enjoy it, but don’t need to deal with it. I’m too old for it now, I just want to relax and enjoy my fall years.” he said looking to the sun, eyes closed. “I’ve seen so much, done so much, caused so much pain, I’m just tired of it. My fighting spirit is worn out, and I’ve been around too long. Put in the fact my spirit was broken long ago before the war started, and i’m one big mess ready to make Chernobyl look like a firecracker.”
“I was at my hometown’s Comic-Con and was sent into my version of Equestria after I bought the void Stone around my neck from a guy dressed as Handsome Jack from Borderlands. Spent the first twenty-five years trying to get home then just settled down in Everfree for a few hundred years. Got the title Golden Eyed Sage from the locals that would visit me then I decided to shut everything down and go around the World and study. Gained much knowledge and then I got homesick for the forest and that's when I returned to find the Castle of the Two Sister had been built. First time I met Luna she blasted me into a wall,” Ed laughed. “That actually seems to be a recurring theme with every alicorn I meet.”
“You two must sound like an old married couple there Ed.” Pyro said with a laugh.
“Me, I went to a Con with my friends, saw the Merchant, bought the Matrix, and the Shield blaster from AOE/TLK wound up here,”
“Well let’s all get going, Prime you might want to shrink down to fit, and the rest of you can come too,” Pyro said looking at Ed, Me, then Sari and Nyx. I snapped my fingers and shrunk down, still five feet bigger than Pyro.
“Oh, by the way, Pyro,” I smacked upside the head, lightly not to kill him, but hard enough to show my anger.
“Ow, that hurt.”
“YOUR FRIENDS WITH THE MERCHANT?!”
“Yeah…and?” He said with a small grin, rubbing the spot I hit.
“I HATE THAT HOBO!! He’s the reason why I’m here!”
“Hey he’s doing his job, hate it or not, but it’s a job. But be happy he didn’t screw you over on something. Though, could call him up if you want?”
“Think of it this way Prime. If the merchant wouldn’t have sent you here then wouldn’t have fallen for a girl that deeply cares for you and a daughter to love,” Ed says to me with a grin while pointing to my family.
“Yes you are right Ed I’ll be sure to thank him for that, and if I’m going to be here, I want some things,” I said,
“Ok let me give him a ring.” He said lifting up his pipboy and typing on the keyboard. The number going in so fast I couldn’t see it. It rung three times before he picked up.
“Hello Pyro, my old friend, what can I do or buy from me for you?”
“Not much right now my friend, but I got a friend here that wants to talk to you,” he said moving over to me to look down at the Pipboy.
“Ah James how are you today?” he said in a mock happy tone.
“Now, my friend, treat him like you do for me, not rudely,” Pyro said his face taking on a slightly angered look.
“Whatever, hello Merchant, and to answer your question, I’ve been just peachy, I love getting shot by ponies left and right and going to war against several different versions of Decepticons, but just peachy,” I said,
“Hey, you wouldn’t happen to know the merchant that uses the Handsome Jack cosplay would you?” asked Ed. “if ya don’t I get it. Multiverse is pretty big and there are a lot of you guys spread out over multiple Earths too. Just thought I’d ask if you do happen to come across him please tell him Allan Ferris says Thanks. Hey, Prime, you wouldn’t happen to have an artifact with a similar energy signature to the Allspark would you?”
“I could send some probes out to scan around, and see if I can pinpoint it.” said Pyro looking at Ed then me. “Might take a bit, but could work.”
“Sounds perfect old man but we still need a sample of energy or something similar to look for,” Ed says twirling his finger in the air.
“Good point, shorty,” Pyro said to Ed a grin on his face. “Maybe something to a spark could work as a base?” Pyro said starting to get lost in his head. “Darn, I remember something from the prime tv show of transformers, but my bad memories leave it on the tip of my tongue but I just can’t find it,” he said eyes shut, lost in thought, but an angered look crossing his face. “I’m just getting to darn old now, darn this Alzheimer's disease.”
“I think I know what you’re talking about Pyro but I really didn’t watch the series unless it came on in the mornings before school. I’m at a loss myself. If I had paid more attention I could pull it using my Archive magic. No sense in racking our brain on it now though. Why don’t we get started on the arm? It looks as Prime is searching his memory banks,” Ed said point at the Autobot leader. “And if Alzheimer’s is that big an issue I can give you a Mind Stone, but only if you want one.”
“I had it right before I became a displaced, there is no way for it to be cured nor removed. And I know it because I infected myself with the Blacklight virus and even it can’t cure it. It’s just nature running its course. I’m doomed no matter what I do. But as for scanning, I’ve got an idea.” pyro said walking to the door, he opens it and goes through the door shutting behind him. He comes back out a few seconds later. In his hands is an orb, it looks like a probe from star wars. He winds back and throws the thing and it breaks Mach 10 out of the planet's gravity. He hits something on his pipboy and looks closely at it.
“Maybe you’re thinking about Dark Energon, that stuff is uncurable, but I think I have something close to the Allspark,” I said pulling out the Matrix, “The Allspark came from the core of Cybertron, so did the Matrix,” then I felt the sudden familier calling from the Matrix, putting it back in my chest, I went to a corner, then blacked out.
3rd PERSON POV
“Ok, the probe is out and now scanning, all the data is being rounded to my main computer back home and should help with figuring out where it is, and how far out it is. Once we get there, I will get to it, work on your arm and get one of my jump jets ready to jump out there and come back.” Pyro said looking up from his pipboy, looking at all of them before looking to his door.
“Just a bit of info to but Mind Stones won’t cure they’ll prevent progression. It’s like a stasis pod basically but I respect your choice. I hate forcing things on others and only do so if it’s absolutely necessary,” Ed said leaning against a wall. “The only way to make the effects permanent would be to infuse your organic body with a Mind stone on the cellular level. Which you can’t do unless you have the magic weaving skill and alchemy and I know you have alchemy and magic weaving.”
“Not on the levels you have Ed, but I’m good, it’s just time is closing up on me, so I just need to deal with it.” He said his look somber. His eyes took on an aged, weathered look. His true age showing for a moment. As he rubbed his hair some greys could be seen just below the brown. His skin looked worn, and some hidden scars showed themselves.
“Heck, you deserve the name sage way more than me at this point. Not an insult by the way. I can’t imagine some the cool stuff you’ve seen. Only wish I could grow old like you but then I’d leave Luna behind and the fact that someone could get their hands on the void stone around my neck. That’s one artifact that I can’t have floating around the multiverse,” Ed said as he looked to Pyro.
“70,000 years physically and mentally, it takes its tolls, and thanks for the comment. I tend to act sagely sometimes. Not everything I’ve seen nor done was cool. War is hell, and the way I walked through it, I’ve got a gold throne with your number 1 waiting for me in hell. My kids will live till there’s mother’s sun explodes. And that’s true ed, why not hide it, could make a pocket dimension to store it?”
“You don’t have to tell me about wars, my friend, as it always leaves a bad after taste in one’s mouth. The Void stone is the main source of my Immortality and power. A constant supply of souls and whenever I need them and a direct link to the void and its magic. I still have my other abilities like Mana Recovery 1&2 that let me gain magic just by walking around and attacking random things. Plus I have the magic absorption too. Not proud of it cause when I went berserk once I drain a whole area of its magic creating my Badlands,” explained the Alchemist.
“Yeah, I could see some big powers wanting their hands on that.” He said looking younger again. Though his eyes still looked old. “And I know the feeling of using control, thankfully it was on a planet that was void of life but still. It’s why I have my powers limited, held back. I’m so op that I could destroy even if I didn’t want to.” He said his face carrying a grin for a little while but it soon fell once more.
“ Oh no it wasn’t void of life, it was a living forest. A group of minotaur raiders was going around slaughtering villages and I came across them in the process. I have my share of limiters too. Seals of Sins big the bulk of them. No duh. I saw that when I pulled out Abed-Nego. It’s that knockoff of Ea. Didn’t want a world eating sword on my planet. Still have to take caution for the people's sake. I know you understand being a former king to,” added Ed.
“Oh, where they just slaughtering or was more going on that the readers shouldn’t know?” he said looking around as if looking for something. “And I do understand, it’s hard, there were times I had to be tough, times I had to be soft, but should someone do something to my family, times to be known as the mad king, or king of rage, the dark king,” he said his eyes shut, a memory coming back up. “And when it came to the nobles. God, I wanted to kill myself sometimes during listening to those suck-ups. Thankfully me and my lover found ways to entertain ourselves during that, from using magic behind them or playing a trick on a guard nearby or some adult things.” he said, a small amount of blood trailing from his nose during that thought. His grin locked in a pervy sage look, or master Roshi look. Beard included.
“Same here when it comes to family. I was dubbed the Crimson Butcher during the Minos Wars. Then the Crimson King. Pretty sure you know how most Minos Politics works. As for kingly duties, Luna and I were able to get married thanks to them and we’ were able to bridge the gaps between the kingdoms. We even adopted many of the war orphans that later became the Order of Crimson. In fact one of my students slash assistant is one of their descendants,” Ed said with a laugh. “I think I might put ole Blueblood through a training Regime and see if we can’t fix the stick up his butt attitude.”
“Yeah I know how it goes, just a bunch of feet kissers, and money grabbers taking up the time people with real problems need help with. Like Blueblood, for example, he tried being rude to me and tried getting me killed, assassins if I remember right. I beat his butt across the room and left him chained up, with one warning on him, tired around his neck, Don’t mess with the king or this will be you next. Didn’t have any feet kissers for a few years.” he said his face in anger then with a small grin. “And it might work for you too, that or cut off his funds. Either one should work. He just is a greedy little turd that needs a lesson given to him. And throw in what he did to rarity and I would of straight killed him. But now he can stay in the jail room I threw him in.”
“Speaking of kings, you think Prime okay over there? He seems to have moved over into the corner and is he shaking a bit?” Ed asked.
“Prime, the real prime is how old in the show? He has some large amounts of years to dig through.” He said looking at the prime.
“Good point if he has all of the originals memories plus the ones from other shows too. Heesh and I thought have Truth cram universal knowledge into your head was tough. Get a headache, just thinking about it. Akashic records are one heck of a trip. Ya know,” Ed says grabbing his head in pain.
“I think the original is millions of years old, I think. Heck, I have to write down some things myself at the moment to remember them down the road now,” he said lifting up a small book and writing in it briefly, then closing it and stuffing it in his pocket. “But if I had that kind of thing going on, I need a stiff drink and a few weeks to piece everything together.”
“Says the one man in the room that can still get drunk, my body won’t let me and Prime’s a machine. Anyway, enough on remembering let's get to work on that arm while Prime’s still checking his memories,” Ed said with a raised brow as the old man took out a flask.
“I drink shine Boy, still takes a few mugs to start getting to me.” He said lifting up a small flask and drinking from it. “And done deal, you open the door, I will pull the baby on though. Then we can place an order and get some drinks and go over what the probe is picking up. Work on that arm and get an army started on build time for prime.”
“Sounds like a foolproof plan to me Pyro. This door here right,” Ed said pointing to the door to his right.
“Yep, darn prime, lose some weight would ya. My back won’t enjoy this for long.”
“Let me,” Ed said placing his hands on the Autobots side and began to push Prime off to the other side of the room.
“Thank you, that spell I used takes more than it used too, darn am I getting old.”
“Not human anymore here. At least not after I died about a month or so back,” Ed says joining Pyro in front of the door
“Yeah I hear ya, the Blacklight virus and the many, many DNA splices I’ve done to myself, I couldn't be called human if weren't for my shape,” he said before stopping.
“At least you still have a mostly organic body. Mine may seem it but I’m really a mass of life energy,” Ed said looking to the older Displaced.
“That’s a good point Ed. Power level release 25%.” His muscles pulsed for a sec and then he begins pulling prime easily. “And in a way. If I use the blacklight, i’m just a mass of biomass. But after some tweaking, I got it to the point I can turn it on and off. Becoming stable and unstable at will. Sadly, I can only change my right arm, my left is just like yours Ed, fully cybernetic. Though my left leg is too. God, how could I forget that.” He said looking down at said limb, then leg.
“Mirror that my dear friend,” Ed said pulling up his sleeve and pant leg.
“I know ed, just got lost in my head was all and forgot. Happens from time to time. Just a side effect from my disease.” he said walking through the doorway.
“I’m coming to,” Ed says walking through the door, “What is this room exactly?”
“Welcome to my room of rooms. As you can see there are many many doors linked to doors in my pockets that I can place in worlds I’ve been to, so displaced can come and go without having to summon using tokens. As you can see I’ve marked ones that are linked, and ones that aren't. Now follow me at the end of the hall is the door the leads to my hub. Then we take one to the war room and I will move the one linked to my lab and factory into the war room.” he said now being able to lift prime on top of him to hold him better. “I tend to act like twilight sometimes and over prepare. Saves time sometimes, and sometimes its a waste, but oh well.”
“My mother always taught me it’s better to over prepare than under. That’s why I prefer to study my opponents before wars. Not a personal battle as it takes the fun out of it. Luna actually has a place similar to this place that Starswirl and I built. It’s called the Dark Library. Back home Dark magic was never banned. Luna even ran a school on it before she and I were seperated.” Ed said with a frown.
“Aren't pocket dimensions fun? And my girls might stop in since Pinkie tends to know where I am, and the fact twilight and I were doing an experiment right before getting summoned. Should be in my lab still, and the others will be trailing behind pinkie.” He said a grin on his face as he tracks the girls in question. “And before I forget, Pinkie and Fluttershy are pregnant, so don’t scare them ok? One more thing, Spike and Rarity are a thing. Thanks to my help, at getting them together.”
“Why would I scare them? If they’re your girls then they should be used to seeing a human,” Ed said “Or at the least, I shouldn’t freak them out too bad. I’m guessing polygamy is a thing here too. Oh, and Spike and Rarity are pretty much together back home and so are Discord and Fluttershy though the four are still on the down low about their relationships.”
“You two are the first displaced I’ve had in my world. And take in the fact, I got a big robot on my back right now. You wouldn’t that much, prime though…” he said trailing off, a focused look on his face. His being started splitting down the center. Two halves walking beside him now. “Wow been some time since I’ve have called you guys out.”
“Okay not good for you, and what the heck!?” Ed says freaking out a bit.
“They are two powers that I have gotten from a displaced, Jak from Jak and Daxter. They both have their own bodies and tend to come out should I need them or if they get bored. One is pure dark eco and one is pure light eco. They rarely talk though since its more a hive mind. But they both say hello and it's nice to meet you, we were asleep but pyro woke us up.” Pyro said looking back at ed, both clones looking at ed at first then lifting prime up and talking prime through a door.
“Kind of like my Stone of Malice and my Stone of Compassion. Malice is a demon formed from the hatred of the souls and my own self. While I now have Somber is the embodiment of the compassionate souls. They’re more of a have mind pair,” Ed stated with a grimace look.
“Similar but I'm using the Blacklight to give them bodies,” he said while walking to a door. “Let’s head off the girls and get some food ordered, and then we can hit my lab and get the arm started, the twins should let me know once prime is done with his break down,” he said opening the door. On the other side and a village with a blacksmith to there right, a store right next to it, the sign read, gun store. The blacksmith also said reforge tools and Trade post. The rest of the town was housing and a small castle behind the doorway they walked out of. The girls were walking through the gate that leads into the village. Pinkie saw them both and now was full speed for pyro. She jumped and nailed him in the chest sending both to the ground, locked in a kiss.
“Pinkiepedo twelve o'clock dude!” Ed said moving to the side. “Glad I only have one girl to deal with.”
“Too late,” Pyro said after breaking away from the kiss. “It’s fun having more than one lover, helps on nights you want action, pinkie, or gentle love, Fluttershy. And once these little ones are born, means they can turns babysitting,” he said with a laugh as pinkie gets off him so he can stand up.
“Is the male population low for ponies here?” Ed asked looking around.
“1 to 50 sad to say, something about a war long ago with some empire back when the sisters' parents were around, some spell cast I think,” he said looking at ed while rubbing Pinkie’s head, her back leg was bouncing like a dog’s would. “Never looked into it.”
“I was entombed before the empire vanished back home so I don’t know the details of the Crystal War of my world,” Ed says still looking around. “Glad I live in anthro-land. Everything here is too small. Even for me when I used to be short.”
“So who’s your friend sweetie. Is he like you? Well is he?!” Pinkie said excitement in her voice.
“He is my friend pinkie, his name is Edward, but call him ed.” pyro said.
“I will call him Eddy, oh he needs a party, I’ll be back sweetie!” Pinkie said kissing his cheek then taking off back to Ponyville. Thankfully not using her shortcuts, since we don’t know what it would do to the baby.
“Ed, please Pinkie. I hate jawbreakers and she’s gone. How did you fall for that pink ball of boundless energy that can power a small country on nothing but sugar?” Ed asked shaking his head.
“She heard you, Ed, that mare has hearing like you wouldn’t believe.” he said “We found a spark after a night of drinking, heavy drinking, I think I was having a case of PTSD at the time and after waking up to the room’s state, but it was Fluttershy that things became a herd. She is the leader of the herd, pinkie is second,” he leaned closer and whispered. “And I think Applejack will be next.”
“Like they say ‘It’s Pinkie don’t ask’. Mine pulled out a party machine gun during her training fight with Rarity and Fluttershy. I’m really glad herds aren’t part of the norm back home. Not that they don’t exist. They’re just aren’t more common,” Ed said looking to Pyro. “Bet prime will have one.”
“Love em or hate them they happen, sometimes because the guy can’t hurt the girls' feelings by choosing just one of them. I know I can’t.” he said looking at ed. “And I will take you up on that bet.”
“Wonder how that would between a pony and a robot. URRA. Nope, not a thought I want in my head right now. To be honest I have no issues with herds. I would probably have had one myself but the male to female population is fifty-fifty back home so there not as common or necessary. That and I’m completely devoted to Luna,” Ed said with a smile.
“Hey, it worked with me and them, even though I did change into a pony for a night. God, it was strange for the first few weeks afterward. And that's a good thing for your world Ed, but trust me, keep an open mind. Its how I stand pinkie on some nights, no offense to her, but sanity bar needs to stay up around 75%.” he said his view looking to the castle.
“Eh call it closed minded or complete devotion. Luna is the only girl I’ve ever truly fallen for,” Ed said. “But like I said before I’m not against a herd but like all I have to have my current spouse’s approval first.”
A small pop and a flash of blackened flames happened next to pyro, a clone of him sat there holding a tablet out to the original. He took it, stopping mid-stride. His body language said he was heavy stress and worried. He handed it back to the clone who teleported away.
“Bad news Pyro?” asked Ed in concern.
“Very bad news. Miss, I’ve got to poke at my other nerd friend’s stuff messed with my reactor and we gotta get down there, Now!” he said grabbing Ed and running full speed to his doorway.
“Oh Twilight why in the living Tartarus did she have to do this now!” he said the girls trailing behind him worried. “Of all the days to do this to me, it had to be today, for god’s sake why? Thank God I set these up to act as shortcuts, god if it goes nuker I’m going to get really mad.”
“You need any radiation absorbing material or something along those lines?” asked Ed worriedly.
“No, thankfully. The reactor is from Minecraft, I think it was called, extreme reactors. The fuel is just like an element from home. Thorium to be on the spot. When solid its stable, melted its unstable. But I can’t be for sure, when we get down there you take a Geiger counter and check her. I will suit up and go in, I hope it’s not melting the case, The coolant should be helping that from happening.” he said his face worried.
“Want an Ice Stone just to be on the safe side?” asked Ed.
“I’m using something that goes to -2,234* Celsius. So cold as buck.” he said looking to Ed in his arm. “I just hope I don’t have to take some heavy rads over this, I hate using radaway. Turns your nature’s call to a glowing green, eww,” he said shuddering a little.
“This is one of those times I’m glad radiation doesn’t affect me,” Ed said with a grimace look.
“It makes me feel odd and the biomass I have begins to die. It worries me heavy.”
They ran through the next doorway and were in his lab on one side sat a console, a computer, and other bits and bobs. Serval tubes, one open, 6 closed. The other side held a wall that could easily be seen as. pure lead, but it did have a small viewing port. Giving off a Fallout vibe. Twilight sat by the viewport shaking like a leaf.
“Have you ever thought of cloning yourself before? I’m certain it’s crossed your mind before.” Ed pondered.
“The one you saw give me the tablet was one I made like Osiris did from Destiny. There close to after images, but at the same time they're not. More so too after images in time. But yes I have and you're going to see one in a few seconds.” he said walking up to the open tube.
“I was able to clone a body for my niece using a combination of alchemy and magic techniques not too long ago. I do have to have some help from a Void Dweller with the soul transfer though,” Ed explained. “Course I did use her siblings’’ DNA as part of the base. It took about a week for the body to mature to the age of seven biologically.”
“Must have been fun, the counters are on the computer’s stand. I need to suit up, can you check on her for me, I don’t need the sisters coming down here and give me crap over what happens to her,” he said laying into the tube as it closed. It read, War/original body.
Ed walked over and picked up on of the Geiger counters. “What you’re not their father for this world. HEHE. Sorry, a little joke to lighten the mood a bit never was good at that sort of thing.”
The pod closest to the wall opened, smoke and fog pouring out and out stepped a hazmat-suited figure is a face hidden behind the mask, it looks just like the one Gordon Freeman uses in half-life.
“No, they're not my kids, their parents died in what every turned the badlands to what it is today, all that was left was some black stone. And the joke helps a little.”
“Well, let’s get this over with I’m a little anxious to meet the rest of your girls,” Ed chuckled’
“Yeah, time to fix this mess, Someone had to make!”
Pyro stepped into the doorway the closed behind him pushed the pad to open the other one and walked into the room for the reactors, his suit picking up minor rads. 1 to 3 rads a sec, and it was getting worse the closer he got, he could see the hole in the reactor that was seeping the radiation out. After placing a new block in its place, he walked up to the display and started working on it, he would pause, look it over, before going on. He then hit the final one and everything turned green, the rooms cleaning system clicked on and the element he found that acted like anti-radiation, and would cancel it out or suck it in. He looked at the rads in the room drop to 0.000035 rads, he knew it was safe. He walked to the door and went back to the main lab room. He looked to ed watching him tend to twilight. He walked to the pod sat in it and it closed. An one next to war that read lab opened and out stepped a doc brown looking clone. He went over to the computer and started typing, then walked over to something that was hollow and had to flat bases on the top and bottom. One pop later and a radaway sat there waiting.
“She gonna be ok?” Ed asked in concern. “THIS THING’S GOING CRAZY!”
“What are her rad reading at?” he said grabbing the radaway. “What’s the number staying at?” he said calmly.
“8 to 9. That’s bad right?” Ed showed Pyro the counter. “I have an idea. I might be able to pull the radioactive particles from her body with alchestry.”
“Darn it Twilight, why did you have to go and do this. And that ain’t much, I’ve seen some beasts from fallout, the glowing ones anyways push up to 100 rads a tick,” he said bending down and placing the needle to a vein. The bag draining till empty. “This is going to do the trick, it just takes a few moments, the moment she jumps up, move out of the way, or help her to the bathroom down the hall. I need to make sure, that was all she poke around with,” he said walking back to the computer and sitting down. He typed away and then crossed his fingers looking at the screen. His face brutally calm.
“Good to hear and sure thing. My Twi is a little denser than most so I don’t have to get too worried. It’s my assistant Polearm I have to worry about,” Ed says as he watched the pony before him as a thought crossed his mind. “You gonna try to her in your herd too?”
“Looks like that is all she messed with, the rad must have thrown her for a loop, and that’s how she got here, looks like she was heading for the alarm. Might have teleported. Twilight next time you want to poke at my things, make sure you ask me to teach you what it does and if it's deadly.” He said looking back at them. Her friends now around ed and her watching closely. “Maybe, but needs a spark to happen, she needs to find a way to get out of her student shell. I mean, after all, we both know what’s coming, Ed.” He said looking at the man in question
“Her ascension is what I’m guessing you mean,” Ed said cocking his eyebrow. “Might want to keep an eye out for the Children of the Night and Nyx. I’m fixing to have to deal with it myself. I really don’t want to let Twi get hurt but I can’t just let Nyx not exist. Luna needs to face her too.”
“Yep, and don’t say any more, don’t need to mess with the timeline anymore.” It’s bad enough we both know the future and don't need it to change. And that’s true, might have to swing over there in a few hours check around to be safe. I’ve must have forgotten to check.”
“I hear that. I’ve told Tia and Luna about my knowledge or at least what I could at the time when my memories were under a seal. Whenever I would leave my world I’d get them back but they’d be sealed as soon as I’d return. That’s not the case anymore since I gave up being human. Heck, Discord was released before my niece’s wedding.” Ed commented
“Yeah, the wedding just happened here, though right after I left since I got an emergency call from an old friend I met during my space trip years. I went out to help him out and after getting back got sucked into the experiment with Twi,” he said looking at their group then putting his hands together and seeming stress and saddened.
“Looks like our little scientist is starting to come around. You girls want to take her to the shower. I don’t feel comfortable doing so,” Ed said with a flushed face. “I try to respect a ladies space as much as possible. Pony or not.”
“Yeah, we don't mind sugar, she does need it, I think,” said Applejack.
“When she wakes up she will have to go to the bathroom, so watch out.” said Pyro. “And if she screams ‘why is it green and glowing’ That’s normal,” he said turning around and walking back to the chair.
“I’m going to need to do a little meditation to get those images out of my head,” Ed says rubbing his eyes.
“Ed be happy you didn’t walk around the fallout universe for a little while as I did. Some memories in there over that still make me shudder a little,” he said the girls looking back at him as he put his hand over his face and leaned back in the chair, which then fell over. The thud echoing down the hall.
“Need some help there,” Ed said reaching down to Pyro.
“Thanks, I forget about the dam-darn wheels, they always do that,” he said reaching out to grab eds hand.
“I just thought about this, but do I need to worry about the sister’s senes my presence here? I don’t want to cause you or this world any unwanted trouble,” Ed says scratching the back of his head. “I already give off the kill you vide to most things I meet due to my demon form.”
“They are already on the way here, I felt them move once we got up top, but they shouldn't freak out too much. Just be ready, they tend to act strangely around me, might know about something or, something like that. Chrysalis is still up in Canterlot healing the wounded and starving changelings. I’m just happy I got her to change her mind and keep the fallout from her plan from hitting too close to home.” he said going to the keys and typing in something.
“Unfortunately for me Chrysalis back home fought me when Malice took over my body and in the battle was mentally damaged by my form at the time. It was so bad the hive mind broke. Though some good did come from it as the changelings have now integrated into our society. Some have even become the fairy versions while the others have become whole,” Ed explained as he sat down against the wall. “We gonna meet Celestia and Luna via doorway I'm guessing. Seems to be the fastest way of travel here.”
“Is she dead, or badly wounded or locked up?” he said not even looking back at him. Focused on the screen in front of him. “No they're taking the elevator down here, should make their way here in a few moments, watching them on the cams through the halls. Remind me to check my supplies and count off how much I’ve got because I might have to make a new mining dimension soon,” he said sitting back down.
“She’s there but mentally scarred from the battle. She freaks out whenever I’m just twenty feet away just from sensing my presence. Other than that Chrysalis has actually mellowed out from not having to run a hive anymore. She’s become quite attached to Tia and has come to view her as a second mother,” Ed said with a smile. “Noted. But don’t forget my Arc of Embodiment to if you need something.”
“That’s good, while her actions are bad in our eyes, it was a forced choice for her, after seeing her children die from starvation would drive anyone to do, something as rash as invade. And no thanks to blueblood for sending the letters requesting help back or burning them or sending terrible racist letters back to her,” he said fingers crossed once more anger beginning to cross his face once more. A blood vein popping up on his forehead. “And i’m good for the gift, I just need to keep an eye on the yellorium income, so I don’t run out, a reactor can’t make steam if it doesn’t have fuel. I mean its make enough to turn 6 turbines. And once I get enough bluetonium I can turn on the reactor for that element. It looks to make more steam to power 12 turbines.” he said looking at his computer bring up a sheet full of numbers of supplies. A yellow ingot showed 1.2 million, he nodded his head before letting out a few.
“Good thing my buck of a nephew is too much of a coward to try anything like your Blueblood. He has tried to take advantage of Chrysalis a few times but Tia and I set him straight with a few trips to the arena. Let’s just say he has more than a few noticeable scars on his once so-called ‘beautiful face’ and not thanks to me,” Ed said with a chuckle. “Speaking of fellow royals look who's here.”
“Don’t get me started on that waste of space. He is good where he is now, in a nice warm spot in Tartarus,” he said he left eye seeming to glow for a second, and I could have sworn it was a blue glowing flame. He took a deep breath after that, and looked at the sisters in question, to this surprise two more had joined them. Shining Armor and his wife, cadence.
“Well what took you two, too many cakes and moon pies to fit in the elevator?” pyro said looking at them a big grin on his face. His eyes shined a little. He looked at them as a small blush crossed both their faces, shining was mad as Tartarus, and cadence was showing a small blush as she looked at her aunt’s backsides seeing if what he said was true. She seemed to agree but soon got mad over it.
“Well its true, I bet you two couldn’t fit into your old armors, even with some grease,” he said digging the grave deeper.
“Not that armor would matter in a confined space like this. Especially to someone who can disintegrate it with a touch. Am I right Roshi?” laughed Ed.
“Darn straight and these two know, the prank war will begin soon,” he said looking at them as their gears turned to make up a way to get back at him for the weight joke. But it seemed like they grew a little self-conscious over there weight. “Bet you enjoy looking at another luna’s butt and not get in trouble for it.” He said laughing full bore.
“Okay old dude, low below there,” Ed said red-faced looking up to the ceiling.
“I’m joking, Ed You seem loyal enough, just remember what I said out of the battlefield.” Pyro said looking at ed, his grin falling away. “But time to get to the topic at hand. Your student was poking around my gear, and is lucky to be alive, anything you to want to say, daughters?” he said his face locked in the most terrifying angry look possible.